Does it frustrate you to be told you are an idiot by christian family

Was called into the lounge by three family members to tell me I am an idiot in believing what I do. They spent the day looking at does Aliens exist on youtube today, and rounded it of with Loyd Pely. Evolution does not exist, Darwin is an idiot because this guy says so. I aked if they have done research and they said no. My mother just told me evolution is not real as she has experienced and witnessed to many miracles in life. I have never called them in to insult there believes why do they think it is ok to do this to me. Is this christian mentality?.How is it possible for any person to make statements without having proof, and then insist that what they believe is true.

I've never been called an idiot by my family. I think, if they were to call me an idiot, I'd have to seriously consider how important it is that they remain a part of my life. Maybe that's extreme, but I don't know how much I could handle that level of disrespect.

I'm not suggesting you cut them out of your life, but I'd be really, deeply hurt by that. Some level of respect is important to me. I get my family is worried for me, and they think I'm rebelling, or misled by Satan, or angry about things that happened as a child... but they don't think I'm an idiot. They at least know I'm intelligent and thoughtful. I get frustrated they don't seem to know enough about my personality and character to know I wouldn't turn my back on the "God of the Universe" just because I was angry at him or feeling rebellious. But if they just thought I was an idiot? What kind of relationship could I have with people who thought I was an idiot?

Well, needless to say, it wouldn't *just* frustrate me. I'd be livid. And I might not have anything nice to say to them thereafter.

I would consider it the equivalent of having apes or monkeys throwing feces against their glass enclosure at the primate house in the zoo . It's just an instinctual reaction by smaller brained primates frustrated by their captivity . In your family's case , their minds are captured by religion , and they are flinging metaphorical mental feces at you . My suggestion is to pat them on the head , and give each of them a banana .

This is why I joined this group to have normal people to talk to, people that think! It does get lonely not having someone totalk to, share your thoughts with or have a logical debate with. So thank you for this group.

I have never had that happen, but I have experienced with "friends". I don't associate with them anymore. I hope these family members are not people that you actually have to live with on a daily basis. Either way, start preparing some little comebacks that will provoke thought. Deliver them and walk away. Don't argue because you can't win. They have rejected reason and evidence.

I guess I am extremely fortunate in this regard; my mother's side of the family was atheist to begin with (makes me a third gen); my dad is lapsed, his sister has completely given it up.

So something like this would not have happened to me. My brother actually converted TO Christianity and got to stress out for 30 years about how the rest of us were going to hell (wow my mom hit the roof when she found out he believed that in particular... just shows my mom knows nothing about christianity). (He actually de-converted a few years ago. Hallelujah!)